Norway, Israel and the Jews
Akhtar Chaudry (Socialist Left), deputy president of the Storting (Parliament), riding high on populist sentiment, is on a crusade against Israel. A reader writes in to Aftenposten and expresses his opinion on the vice president’s behavior thus: In the early 12th century King Sigurd the 1st Magnusson travelled with an army to strike back...
It takes a very special kind of man to attack a disabled person merely for expressing himself. It takes a very special kind of police to refer to such an attack as a “stunt” – carried out by the victim of the attack, the disabled person. Kafka has commented on this incident already. Here...
In our secret lair, us operatives in the well-appointed Norwegian field office of the Zionist conspiracy didn’t have much time (nor, for that matter the inclination) to celebrate the well-deserved death of Osama bin-Laden, but apparently an elderly gentleman in Drammen felt otherwise. He mounted a few flags on his powered wheelchair and drove...
The city of Trondheim is a pro-Palestinian powerhouse. In 2009 Trondheim’s most prestigious university NTNU hosted a massive campaign aimed at fostering support for a boycott Israel initiative. Now NTNU is offering a conference on Israel – again. Last time NTNU offered anything like this, Haaretz identified it as an “all star team of...
When the Mosaic religious community in Norway issued a warning against prohibiting circumcision for below-15 year olds, Swedish news agency TT turned the warning on its head and transformed it into a threat. Above you see the TT article, stating that the Mosaic religious community in Norway”warns” that if Norway forbids circumcision for boys...
On Labor day our Foreign Minister preached about Palestine from the pulpit of Ris church in Oslo west. Now the Nidaros cathedral is being adorned with Palestinian PR-art. This is what establishment does: it uses religion as a front for their own political beliefs. Document.no, the blog which developed into a limited company, offers...
After Hamas leader al-Mabhouh was assassinated in Dubai in January, Verdens Gang published a six-page feature article emphasizing al-Mabhouh’s role as a father, husband and human being. The Fogels got nothing even remotely similar to this kind of benevolent treatment. Osama bin-Laden however… US citizen Bruce Bawer is one of the very few foreigners...
Reactions to bin Laden’s death span from delight to satisfaction. Islamic cleric Basim Ghozlan finds it appropriate to compare the terrorist leader to the elected leaders of democratic nations. We see Mr.Ghozlan’s Facebook above. Translation: Usama bin laden has neither represented islam nor muslims. To the contrary he has represented a dark and catastrophic...
The five members of the Fogel family were stabbed to death in their own home on March 11th 2011. No Norwegian newspaper has so far found them worthy of the sympathy with which Verdens Gang journalist Lars Christian Wegner covered the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The VG feature article titled “Destination Assassination”...
The Arthur Svensson Award was instituted last year: The award will be given to a person or organisation for outstanding contributions made to promoting union rights and/or strengthening trade unionship at an international or national level. It was awarded this year to Shaher Saed, the leader of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, for (our...
It is interesting to trace the anti-Israel history as it developed in Norway. And to observe how the extreme left and extreme right borrow from each other in order to deligitimize Israel. Here is a sample of how this pans out. 1975: the then leader of the Norwegian Neonazi party Norwegian front Erik Blucher...
Further to previous post, QED: We really are the last Soviet state, and we really are copycats. The vast Soviet empire, in its death throes could come up with no better argument than Nazism equals Zionism. A few years later, thanks to the mediocrity, the corruption, the perversion of an unfree and unjust society,...
Norway is a little nation on the outskirts of civilization. In spite of claims of fierce independence, of moral clarity, a humanitarian superpower, we are in fact rather boring copy cats. Fashion and political trends only migrate towards our latitudes only when they are on the wane in other parts of Europe, Western world....
The Turkish film “Valley of the Wolves” was released on January 27th, on the International Holocuast Remembrance Day. Today on May 1st, during the Jewish day of remembrance Yom Hashoa, the film is screened at Cinemateket, the House of Film in Oslo. The film is shown as part of the Arabian Film days during...
Normakor not only monitors Norwegian media coverage of the Middle East, but also supplies weekly summaries. From Normakor: Norwegian media memes on Israel, Jews, and the Middle East Week of April 24th, 2011 The Broadcasting Council held its hearings Thursday morning on allegations of bias in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s coverage of Israel. Researcher...
On Labor day May 1st, Foreign Minister spoke about Palestine from the pulpit of Ris church in Oslo west, calling for Norwegians to “give in abundance” to the Palestinians, and for Israel to “tear down the wall”. This is not inappropriate. The vision of Norway’s role as midwife to a Palestinian state has metaphysical...